How You Can Overcome Your Painful Obsession with ChatGPT

Chris Mielke, PMP
5 min readApr 20, 2024

It’s only a four-step program.

Photo by Jez Timms on Unsplash

I was curled up in a ball, sobbing on my office floor. The puddle of tears felt warm against my cheek as I wept.

Darkness gripped my soul — my skin felt like it was on fire, and it was incredibly hard to breathe.

I needed an answer for my agony. Google’s bland search algorithms couldn’t explain why my skull was pounding. Copilot only directed me to WebMD for my nausea and shaking. Gemini assumed that I had poison ivy since I felt itchy all over and kept scratching myself until I bled.

My feeble brain needed the euphoric fix that only ChatGPT provided.

I craved a real conversation and thought-provoking responses. My mind and body missed the blinking cursor as it pondered my instructions and quickly spat back the responses.

But I needed to detox and get away from the rabid, screeching prompt monkey. It was latched onto my back and was deeply ingrained into my daily routine.

I had become painfully addicted to ChatGPT.

If you are reading this article, you probably are also.

The first hit is free

Once you’ve found ChatGPT, you’re going to get hooked.

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Chris Mielke, PMP

I write about technology, project management and Gen X retirement - three subjects I am passionate about. More of my writing: https://substack.com/@chrismielke